With no accountability for school lockdowns, freedom’s foes soldier on, a new doc reveals
I was just a New York City mom with two public-school kids in March 2020.
An immigrant from the Soviet Union who arrived at age 6 in 1977, I knew what it means to escape tyranny and find freedom in America.
I knew what public education means for families like mine.
So when “15 days to slow the spread” turned into months of closed schools, it wasn’t just personal — it was a betrayal of everything I understood America to be.
I sued Mayor Bill de Blasio in the only lawsuit to reopen schools in New York City.
One mom (and many plaintiffs) against City Hall and one of the country’s most powerful teachers unions. People thought I was crazy.
That lawsuit and my advocacy led me to produce my new documentary, “15 DAYS: The Real Story of America’s Pandemic School Closures.”
The film has been watched more than 1 million times.
We released it free on X because the story needs to be told and Elon Musk’s platform for free speech is the right place to tell it.
The film centers on Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, now the head of the National Institutes of Health, Stanford’s Scott Atlas,........





















Toi Staff
Gideon Levy
Tarik Cyril Amar
Sabine Sterk
Stefano Lusa
Mort Laitner
Mark Travers Ph.d
Ellen Ginsberg Simon
Gilles Touboul
John Nosta
Gina Simmons Schneider Ph.d